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...John McCain once called its retirement communities -- is the state that said no to daylight saving time, turned its back on the Martin Luther King holiday and was the last to come around on Medicaid and the interstate highway system. It is home to two-fifths of the Keating Five (Senators Dennis DeConcini and John McCain), to Barry Goldwater (considered left of center by many natives), and to the nation's first impeached Governor in 59 years, Evan Mecham. It is not a place for the politically faint of heart...
...scrambling for her job are eight candidates -- and counting. Five are Republicans. Among them is Mecham, rising phoenix-like from the political dustheap just two years after he was thrown out of office. Says his button- down, blue-blood G.O.P. opponent, J. Fife Symington, "Tragically, Ev is the guy to beat in this primary...
...immediate future, the paramount concern for both Washington and Moscow will be monitoring compliance with arms-control agreements. By the end of the year the U.S. and the Soviets will most likely sign five arms agreements, including a new START treaty. All will probably require permanent on-site monitoring of U.S. and Soviet defense facilities, providing many potential listening posts from which to observe and steal classified data from either Soviet military researchers or American defense contractors. With perhaps two dozen START sites involved, in contrast to the one site each called for in the 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces...
...exactly this quality that appealed to the Philharmonic's search committee, which for the first time also included some of the orchestra's musicians. "He had an institutional commitment to the Gewandhaus that he was prepared to bring to New York," said orchestra chairman Stephen Stamas. Translation: Masur, whose five-year contract begins with the 1992-93 season -- the Philharmonic's 150th anniversary -- is no glamorous international jet-setter but a solid and sober musician who will give the Philharmonic some badly needed attention and stability...
Fujimori is descended on his mother's side from a noble warrior, but his family, like most of Peru's 80,000 Japanese immigrants, first lived in a dirt- floored adobe hovel after arriving from southern Japan in 1934. The second of five children, Alberto worked hard, went to college and eventually became rector of Lima's La Molina National University of Agriculture...